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High cost of building

Is the real estate bubble about to burst?

Robert Rivers, a computer technician, and his wife, Shelly, a high school teacher, have been married for the last four years and together earn $17,000...

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Change fuel subsidy

In effect, the State takes money from its right pants pocket and puts it in its left shirt pocket. What the Government needs to do is simplify the whole gasoline situation...

Effective dates

Recently, I was quite pleased to learn from a Guardian news report that the “effective date” (June 16, 2008) of the RBC/RBTT amalgamation has now been officially confirmed...

 

News

UK business delegation:

T&T ripe for business

Michael Barrow, marketing manager of English-based Matrix Management, believes T&T is an excellent place for business because of its economic growth and stability...

UN envoy:

Climate change can wipe out Caribbean

Rosina Wiltshire, UN resident co-ordinator for Barbados, has said the Caribbean’s voice in the United Nations (UN) is diminishing...

Indigenous needs

Billions to protect tribes, rainforests

Billions of dollars were being offered to developing countries and their indigenous people at the ninth conference of the United Nations (UN) Convention on Biodiversity held in Bonn, Germany, last month where delegates were negotiating access and benefit sharing (ABS)...

 

Trade

Tunapuna chamber and Indian investors sign MOU

The Federation of Indian Export Organisations has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Greater Tunapuna Chamber of Industry and Commerce...

Investment

Maximising use of your assets

The volatile investing climate being experienced in most international markets may have investors asking the question: why should I invest?

 

Management

Linking CSR, sustainability and business ethics

Corporate social responsibility has gained recent currency as a viewpoint which stresses the new and broader set of obligations of business in society...

 

Money

End of the oil age?

Alternative energy options

The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil”—Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, former Saudi Oil Minister and former Head of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec)...

 

Commentary

Bring on the new commissioner

One of the key contributors to this country’s degeneration into its current state of lawlessness, indiscipline and resultant societal problems is, in the chamber’s view, the decades-long lack of effective leadership in the law enforcement services and the thereby limited effective policing and law enforcement for far too long...

Corporate social responsibility

Is it really good for business?

Despite the growing acceptance of the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) among businesses in T&T, there are still many critics of the concept and cynics who see it as nothing more than a bit of good public relations...

Udecott programme

…some implications

TWO weeks ago this column set out to distinguish itself from the procurement aspects of the Udecott controversy and to lay out what to us are more important areas of concern...

Pride Projects

Some readers have said to me that an important aspect of these projects which I seem to have been ignoring is the fact that national pride is a valid goal to which public funds could and should be committed...

Apple to unveil faster IPhone

Apple Inc chief executive officer, Steve Jobs, may unveil an iPhone that works with faster wireless networks in a bid to lure business users from the BlackBerry and reach more international customers...

 

 

 

 

 

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